Quotes about Sacrifice
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
— Thomas Merton
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
— George Whitefield
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
— Albert Einstein
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
— Dorothy Day
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
— Thomas Jefferson
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
— Pope John Paul II
We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
— Dolly Parton
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
— Ronald Reagan
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
— Ernest Hemingway
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams